Will Sharma is a conductor and répétiteur working across a broad range of opera, orchestral and music theatre repertoire. The 24/25 Season includes returns to Longborough Festival Opera, working on their productions of Dido & Aeneas and Wahnfried, alongside their education tour The Implausible Potions of Dr. Dulcamara. He conducts a staged version of Handel’s Messiah with The Merry Opera Company & Ulster Touring Opera and continues his work as a guest conductor with the London Euphonia Orchestra. This season, he makes conducting debuts with the Tête-à-Tête opera festival and with the Berlin Sinfonietta.
Recent highlights have included La Bohème, Götterdämerung, Carmen and The Fairy Queen (Longborough Festival Opera); Arminio (Royal Ballet and Opera); The Turn of the Screw (Opéra de Dijon); Messiah (The Merry Opera Company); Ein Deutsches Requiem (Oxford Orpheus); TIDE! (Aldeburgh Festival/Britten Pears Arts); Eugene Onegin (West Green House Opera). Will is the Chorus Master of the Longborough Festival Opera Youth Chorus and was formerly Principal Conductor of the GoodEnsemble and Associate Conductor of the Royal Forest of Dean Orchestra.
A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Will completed his undergraduate degree in Vocal Studies under the guidance of John Evans and Adrian Thompson, before joining their Opera School. He studied as a répétiteur with Elizabeth Rowe and Susanna Stranders and subsequently as a conducting fellow where he was mentored by Dominic Wheeler. At Guildhall, Will worked as assistant conductor and chorus master for their Opera Makers world premières as well as productions of The Little Green Swallow (Dove), Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and various opera scenes. He was a répétiteur and continuo player for productions such as I’m Cleaning, I’m Cleaning (Esbenshade), the spring Opera Scenes, and their critically acclaimed production of La fedeltà premiata (Haydn).